This has not been a banner year for land buys using money from the community preservation fund in East Hampton.

With results uncertain as Tuesday rolled into Wednesday, many thoughts turned to the Electoral College.

The schools have done a good job dealing with virus cases and preventing wider outbreaks by strictly managing their internal practices. But once outside of the school buildings, the risk of uncontrolled transmission increases.

Insomnia is how I personally discovered the philosophical truth that “I think therefore I am,” a  couple of years before I heard the name Descartes and “Cogito, ergo sum” at boarding school.